Francis Charles Fuller

Sir Francis Charles Bernard Dudley Fuller, CMG, KBE (1866-1944) was the chief commissioner to the Ashanti Empire during World War I.

Biography

Francis Fuller was born in 1866 and joined the Colonial Service in 1884. He was posted to Fiji as his first assignment. He was appointed chief commissioner to the Ashanti Region in 1908.[1][2]

He was awarded the CMG in 1906.[1]

In 1916 he was aboard the British liner, the S. S. Appam and was detained by the Germans off of the coast of Africa.[3] In 1921 he published A Vanished Dynasty: Ashanti.[1]

He was awarded a KBE in 1919.[1]

Fuller died in 1944.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Sir Francis Fuller (1921). A Vanished Dynasty - Ashanti.
  2. ↑ Other sources use 1905
  3. ↑ "Fear Liner Is Lost, With 300 On Board. British Steamer Appam, from West Africa for England, Now Long Overdue. London Shipping Circles Believe Vessel Has Been Sunk. Several Notables on Board.". New York Times. January 29, 1916. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
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